Tag: train
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Herbert William Page and the railway spine controversy
Jonathan DavidsonDurham, North Carolina, United States The first passenger railway journey resulted in the death of a prominent British politician.1 During the 1830s and 1840s,2 railway travel became a popular means of transport in Victorian Britain. By the 1850s, it was clear that this revolutionary advance in transportation also caused many injuries that resulted in…
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Welcome to The Jungle: The story of adopting two food safety laws
Stephen KosnarAccra, Ghana In 1912 my great-grandfather Matthew Kosnar collected his family in rural Bohemia and began a journey that would take them by train, ship, and train again, nearly 6000 miles to their final destination in Chicago, Illinois. Matthew and his two oldest sons began working immediately, and his youngest son, John (my grandfather),…